Intel Celeron D Overclocked to 8.20 GHz

Yes, a Celeron. Why? For the glory, of course. A devoted overclocker by the name of "TiN" at Xtremelabs claims to have pushed the Intel Celeron-D 347 to an unthinkable 8.20 GHz. This beats the previous record by just 16.8 MHz. Preliminary reports indicate that the CPU did not melt into a pile of slag.

Impressive as an exercise. It is running with more than 2 volts, which is absolutely beserk.

However yes, this is a netburst architecture chip. Intel projected netburst would eventually scale to 10ghz, but of course it wasnt to be. Although efforts like this prove it wasnt completely incapable of epic clockspeeds. Nehalem like a core i7 is WELL over twice as fast per clock. In other words a quad core i7 running on just a single core is probably as fast, most likely even faster.